ripping from dvd to quick time with audio and video

[Shane Ross]

Shane’s Stock Answer #7:

To start, I will state that trying to capture any DVD you bought or rented, be it a Hollywood movie or exersize video, is illegal. I will not give you any tips on how to bypass copy protection. It is there for a reason.

To capture footage from a DVD, you have a couple options.

1) Route the DVD player to your DV camera or deck via the RCA cabling. Then you can put the footage you want ontp DV tape and have the benefit of timecode in case the need to recapture comes up.

2) You can get a great application called DVDxDV (Google it). This opens up the DVD and allows you to convert the video to DV/NTSC footage. And it allows you to only convert what you want by allowing you to mark in and out points. The free version puts a big watermark across the center of your footage, but if you pay $25 for the standard version, that goes away.

Or you can use Mpeg Stream clip. This is free.

Shane

Littlefrog Post
http://www.lfhd.net

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[Neil Ryan]

“need to get footages from dvd…”

First thing you do (like I do) is ask whoever gave the DVD to you, can they access the original video master? DVD is not the ideal way to supply material for editing.
If the answer is ‘No’ ask for proof that they are allowed to use the footage off the DVD.

I feel all editors owe it to themselves to make some investigation into the footage supplied to them, for creative, technical and legal reasons.

cheers,
Neil.

[Rj Miles]

May I add, I pulled off something with MPEG Streamclip that I could not with DVDxDV Pro.

A client sent me a Europe produced 25fps corporate DVD to turn into a looping DVD for one of their trade shows.

I could not find a way to transcode the video file without serious interlaced artifacts, and I think I tried everything.

I then used MPEG Streamclip to make a DVCPro50 file, using it’s motion adaptive deinterlacing. I then married the sound track to the transcode video file and it authored to DVD perfectly.

I will definitely be using MPEG Streamclip more when trying to transcode sources with difficult frame rates.